On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Phil Doroff wrote: > Strange, > > have you tried mkswap -v2? (man is your friend) I had a suspicion on this, -v1 is the correct argument. My friend is man, the original swap type is gotten by -v0. However: > > dragon# fdisk -l /dev/hda | grep hda2 > > /dev/hda2 10 219 1686825 82 Linux swap > > dragon# mkswap -v1 -v -c /dev/hda2 Note here--------------^^ There is no "-v for verbose" option to mkswap, therefore it is probably being taken as "-v0" and erasing the previous "-v1". The user interface implications are left as an exercise for the reader... -- Daniel Taylor dante at plethora.net